On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 08:33:36 -0400, Dave "Crash" Dummy wrote:

XS11E wrote:
"Mr Simon" wrote:

And the usual complaint about not being able to switch Metro off

It's easily switched off with Classic Shell.

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

With Classic Shell, Windows 8 becomes a usable OS!

That is reassuring, but is it useful as well as usable? Does Windows 8
do anything non metro that Windows 7 doesn't, or do anything better?

Of course it does -
http://redmondmag.com/Blogs/IT-Decis...sing-Info.aspx